Chapter 379 Love
King An, sitting in the carriage, had no response to the noise of the people outside at first. He was concerned about his youngest son's injuries, and his old age and weak body, so he could no longer spend his energy to deal with other things.
But when the firecrackers and gongs and drums outside began, he was furious and asked in anger what was going on outside.
The rich man went out to take a look, and quickly ran back to report: "Prince, there are people from Hongzhou outside. I heard that the prince came to Hongzhou and came out to greet him."
"Is there such a thing?" King An spent his whole life in the capital. He used to be afraid of the emperor's brother's suspicion, so he did not dare to leave the capital. Later, his nephew became the emperor, so he had no worries, but at that time he was addicted to beauty and was not willing to run out.
Even if it is rare to go out for a trip, it is still a secret move for safety and has never been watched by the public like this.
Listening to the shouts outside the carriage, he was a little excited, so he sat up and asked the rich man to pull the curtain open, and he wanted to see what was outside.
The rich man quickly lifted the curtain, revealing King An who was sitting in the car. The people standing by the roadside saw an old fat man sitting in the carriage, and they all guessed that this person must be King An. Seeing that this fat person was so fat, he would definitely eat big fish and meat every day.
Suddenly, a man on the side of the road shouted in a voice that was overwhelming everyone, "King An! I see the true appearance of King An! God, I am so excited!"
He stood up with his fists and jumped up very much, attracting everyone's gaze, then covered his chest and shouted excitedly and fainted.
When King An saw that he had fallen on the person next to him, he was about to send his rich father to check it out. Could it be that he was scared to death when he saw him?
However, a woman's scream came from the right. A woman who looked over thirties waved the handkerchief in her hand and kept shouting: "King An! King An!"
The woman shouted and wanted to throw a purse in her hand. A woman suddenly jumped out next to her and shouted, "By your appearance, you dare to seduce King An!"
"What do you do?" The man was not outdone and immediately fought back. The two of them immediately started fighting on the side of the road when they had disagreements. They pulled their hair into each other and made a ball of them. Finally, they turned over from the side of the road and continued to beat and scold the fields.
King An had never seen such a fierce woman. When he was shocked, he felt a little excited. He planned to wait until he arrived in Hongzhou Prefecture and ask the rich father-in-law to find out which woman they are. Although they are older, they have a very urban flavor.
Zhuang Rou pursed her lips and looked at Chu Xia awkwardly, "Sir, don't you think this is too much? It looks so stupid. Who can faint when you see a prince? Especially those two older sisters just now, where did you find them?"
"I know that there are no less than ten officials who fainted when they met the emperor. Although it is a bit exaggerated, it can be regarded as a person with temperament. The onlookers will think they are funny, but those who are admired will not think so." Chu Xia smiled slightly.
"Do you know what men like to see? That is two women, who beat him up to tear off his face. King An must be very satisfied at this time. If it weren't for the large number of people, he would have found the two women."
Zhuang Rou glanced at him with a squinted eye. When she was controlling the playboy, she knew their preferences best.
At this time, the crowd of onlookers changed again.
The merchants were originally beating drums and setting off firecrackers to attract King An to see him, but the big man and two women stole the limelight.
Suddenly someone gritted his teeth, rushed to the center of the road with a sudden inspiration, knelt down, bowed his head and shouted: "Fuyuan rice house welcomes the prince, and is willing to donate fifty bags of rice to help the victims of the Hongzhou disaster, so as to help the victims of Hongzhou to overcome difficulties and share the prince's sorrow."
After the people from Fuyuan Mifang finished speaking, they immediately retreated to the side of the road before the convoy walked to him.
Countless murderous eyes were stalked on the owner of Fuyuan Rice House. No one expected that he was so clever, and his face was exposed with fifty bags of rice.
In an instant, the owner of a grocery shop rushed out and donated 200 taels of silver and 300 pottery bowls for the victims to eat. There were too many victims, and the bowls for eating were also quite expensive. Many of them didn’t even have a broken bowl, so they could pick up some broken water scoops and so on.
More often, they looked at the government and waited for them to beg for food. They were so poor that they could be considered poor.
As the rice and bowls were delivered, the merchants rushed to the middle of the road one by one, kowtowed and immediately gave out a bunch of things. It did not affect the progress of the convoy, but also gave out their own feelings. The people in the An Palace felt a sense of seeing the scene of King An sending gifts when he celebrated his birthday.
King An was confused and kept asking the rich man to send people to write down all the gifts. When his injury healed, he would pick a few more to meet him and give them grace to make these people happy.
The rich man wanted to remind King An that these were all donated to the victims, not for him. It can be seen that he was so happy that if he spoke to remind him, he would definitely be scolded. It would be better to wait for Hongzhou. These people should be able to give gifts that King An could use.
So he responded flatteringly and praised King An with a few words, saying that King An could sweep away the haze on the road and became much happier.
Zhou Ping's carriage was behind King An. He had taken Doctor Zhao's medicine and fell asleep in a drowsy way. He was awakened by the sound of gongs and drums and firecrackers. After cursing, he realized that it was the people who were welcoming them.
He was too seriously injured to lift the curtain to look outside, but listened carefully to the movement outside. The shouts made him inexplicably think of King Qi Zhou Jing. When the two of them were playing together, Zhou Jing mentioned his ambition, which was the emperor who was the most respected by thousands of people.
At that time, Zhou Ping received the personal essay from King An, and had no prospects for power, and only focused on eating, drinking and having fun. He thought it was boring to be an emperor, so he had to get up before dawn in the morning. He had a high-ranking official staring at everything he did, and there was a free prince there.
The cheers of the people now made him a little dazed. His father was just a powerless prince, and he was already a god-like existence to these people. Listen to this voice, if he became an emperor, no matter where he went, he would probably be a more spectacular scene than this.
That...it seems pretty good!
Zhou Ping dared not to fight with King Qi Zhou Jing to become the emperor, but he was not interested in being a Shangshu or something like that before, but now he is interested. This is so interesting.
At this time, looking at the merchants being so generous behind the convoy, Zhuang Rou said to Chu Xia in admiration: "Sir, I didn't expect you to have even arranged this step. The store that delivered rice and grocery stores was all arranged by you, right?"
Chu Xia smiled meaningfully. In fact, he only arranged the three people in front of him. These merchants all came from the news. The merchants have their own ability to flatter, so he just made use of them.
But he didn't expect that these merchants could still donate money and materials if they didn't have time to rebel yet, Chu Xia would have made excuses to drag all these people down and beat them up.
But Zhuang Rou thought it was him who did it, so he would not push such a good thing to others. After tweaking his hair, he proudly recognized it, "Of course, I asked you to watch the show, this is the highlight."
"Sir, I'm really smart and calculating. I'm not wrong at all." Zhuang Rou praised unceremoniously. He was really not wrong. He was so cunning.
Chapter completed!